Markus Wilcke, deputy mayor or Pangnirtung, Nunavut, says the spread of tuberculosis in the hamlet 'keeps the trauma, the PTSD, of several generations alive. Two of the new cases were active TB disease, which makes patients sick and contagious. The other 20 were latent infections, which are asymptomatic and non-infectious, but put people at risk of developing active TB disease in the future. “As long as we are having an increase in active cases it means that things are not under control. “It keeps the trauma, the PTSD, of several generations alive,” Mr. Wilcke said of the current TB outbreak.
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